Upload Files to a Catalog

You can upload ISO and OVA files to a catalog in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

For every OVA file that you upload, VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension creates a folder with the OVA filename and extracts the OVF, MF, and VMDK files to the folder. You cannot modify the objects in such folders, you can only delete them.

You can manually create a template within a catalog and upload OVF and VMDK files to that folder.

If you replace the OVA or ISO files within a published catalog, the operation increases the version of the vApp Template or the media item within the catalog.

You cannot upload OVF and VMDK files to the main directory of a catalog.

Important: When uploading files to VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension, do not navigate out of the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension tenant portal until the upload process completes. Leaving the VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension tenant portal within the same user session interrupts the upload process.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the required set of rights to upload files to a catalog.

• If you are an organization administrator, you can upload files to all catalogs that users in your organization own.
• If you are an organization user, to upload files to a catalog, you must be the catalog owner.

Procedure

1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Director tenant portal.
2. In the primary left navigation panel, under More, select Object Storage.
3. In the Catalogs pane, click the name of the catalog or the template to which you want to upload files.
4. Click Upload.
5. Click the folder icon (), navigate to the files that you want to upload, and click Upload.